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Bug 1100249

Summary:	ovirt-guest-agent does not run with old config on dpkg and rpm based distributions
Product:	[Retired] oVirt	Reporter:	Sven Kieske <s.kieske>
Component:	ovirt-guest-agent	Assignee:	Vinzenz Feenstra [evilissimo] <vfeenstr>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.4	CC:	acathrow, bugs, gklein, iheim, michal.skrivanek, oourfali, Rhev-m-bugs, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	3.4.2
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	virt
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Clones:	1101129 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-06-11 06:44:20 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	1101129

Description Sven Kieske 2014-05-22 11:16:13 UTC

Description of problem:
install older ovirt-guest-agent e.g. from the ubuntu ppa
via apt-get into debian 7 wheezy (same problem should affect ubuntu as well)
alter something in the /etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf

switch now to the new repo on opensuse.org provided by evilissimo
it installs succesfully, however the new ovirt-guest-agent.conf
does not overwrite the altered ovirt-guest-agent.conf.
instead, it gets written to disk as:
ovirt-guest-agent.conf.dpkg-dist

result: new ovirt-guest-agent can not be started with old config file
output of:
service ovirt-guest-agent status
[FAIL] ovirt-guest-agent is not running ... failed!
service ovirt-guest-agent start
no output at all
service ovirt-guest-agent status
[FAIL] ovirt-guest-agent is not running ... failed!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.9.1-1.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
ovirt-guest-agent can't be started with old config

Expected results:
ovirt-guest-agent can be started with old config

Additional info:
this may be related to the new option in the conf file:
report_num_cpu_rate = 60

workaround:
backup your tweaks to the agent conf
remove the old agent conf and the .dpkg-dist file
reinstall ovirt-guest-agent

apply your changes again to the new conf file

Comment 1 Sven Kieske 2014-05-22 11:17:50 UTC

I can't select the proper version for the guest-agent in bugzilla, the versions
you can select are for engine only, this should also affect different
sub-components of ovirt with different versioning schemes like vdsm, too.

Comment 2 Sandro Bonazzola 2014-06-11 06:44:20 UTC

This is an automated message

oVirt 3.4.2 has been released:
 * should fix your issue
 * should be available at your local mirror within two days.

If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.